Anyone want a 50TB flash drive? No price mentioned anywhere, but that doesn't surprise me. In a few years, this will move down to consumer level devices. So when they are selling 500TB drives to the cloud storage vendors, the 50TB version might actually be affordable for the rest of us.

This article is actually really timely for me and I just went and checked and noticed that I lost some data from simulations when the 100TB data drive on our cluster filled. I think I was only using 10-15TB at the time.

Anyone want a 50TB flash drive? No price mentioned anywhere, but that doesn't surprise me. In a few years, this will move down to consumer level devices. So when they are selling 500TB drives to the cloud storage vendors, the 50TB version might actually be affordable for the rest of us.

This article is actually really timely for me and I just went and checked and noticed that I lost some data from simulations when the 100TB data drive on our cluster filled. I think I was only using 10-15TB at the time.___

Confronting, hearing, and countering offensive speech we disagree with is a skill. And one that should be considered a core requirement at any school worth its salt.

In that regard, recent incidents suggest that colleges are fundamentally failing their students in imparting these skills. In just the past few weeks, from one campus to another and another and another, liberal students have silenced conservative speakers with violence, outrage, and threats. This collection of heckler’s vetoes is the farthest thing from a victory for the progressive causes these students champion.

These incidents have not shut down a single bad idea. To the contrary, they’ve given their opponents’ ideas credence by adding the power of martyrdom. When you choose censorship as your substantive argument, you lose the debate.

(Lee Rowland, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU)

Confronting, hearing, and countering offensive speech we disagree with is a skill. And one that should be considered a core requirement at any school worth its salt.

In that regard, recent incidents suggest that colleges are fundamentally failing their students in imparting these skills. In just the past few weeks, from one campus to another and another and another, liberal students have silenced conservative speakers with violence, outrage, and threats. This collection of heckler’s vetoes is the farthest thing from a victory for the progressive causes these students champion.

These incidents have not shut down a single bad idea. To the contrary, they’ve given their opponents’ ideas credence by adding the power of martyrdom. When you choose censorship as your substantive argument, you lose the debate.

we make this big deal about inequality, but it is crazy to pay people doing the same job the same? http://lemire.me/blog/2017/08/12/it-seems-that-there-is-much-that-we-should-discuss/#comment-284153

we make this big deal about inequality, but it is crazy to pay people doing the same job the same? http://lemire.me/blog/2017/08/12/it-seems-that-there-is-much-that-we-should-discuss/#comment-284153___

It is clear that large tech corporations concentrate wealth. Whether that's a problem, I would like to know!

I have a thought on why it is hard to get competition for those tech giants: skill shortage. There simply aren't that many top notch developers in the world, and the big, established tech companies are very attractive for young talent with those skills. You can't just have a great idea about how to compete in tech, you have to be able to put together enough talented people to bring that idea into reality, and once you have done that, there are good odds that one of the big players will buy you as much to acquire talent as to acquire the product.

I do like how they mention the near zero marginal cost of tech products. I still think that things like that cause digital technology to be poorly measured by traditional economic metrics. Another aspect of that is how many people are calling data the new oil or gold, but the analogy is really weak because gold and oil are commodity products. An ounce of gold is an ounce of gold, regardless of where it was mined. However, 1 GB of data could be worth a fortune or almost nothing, depending on what it is data of, and since making a copy of data doesn't destroy the original, there are huge differences between the sale of data and the sale of physical commodities.___It is clear that large tech corporations concentrate wealth. Whether that's a problem, I would like to know!

"Aarhus University’s new initiative, called Open Science, does not allow either the university or the companies involved to patent any discoveries made during the research process and, at the end, the results are disclosed to everyone – even other firms – in what it calls a “patent-free playground”."

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/danes-step-away-patenting-favour-open-science___"Aarhus University’s new initiative, called Open Science, does not allow either the university or the companies involved to patent any discoveries made during the research process and, at the end, the results are disclosed to everyone – even other firms – in what it calls a “patent-free playground”."

"As an essential first step, we need to turn peer review into a rewarding activity. Incentives matter, so it is critical that tenure and grant committees consider researchers for their expertise as reviewers (amongst other things), not just as publication machines. With the proper incentives we will see a renewed focus on peer review, which will get research published and available to the world faster. Giving reviewers a way to showcase their contributions is the idea behind Publons, for example, (of which I am CEO and co-founder) and which was recently acquired by Clarivate Analytics."

___"As an essential first step, we need to turn peer review into a rewarding activity. Incentives matter, so it is critical that tenure and grant committees consider researchers for their expertise as reviewers (amongst other things), not just as publication machines. With the proper incentives we will see a renewed focus on peer review, which will get research published and available to the world faster. Giving reviewers a way to showcase their contributions is the idea behind Publons, for example, (of which I am CEO and co-founder) and which was recently acquired by Clarivate Analytics."

‪Socialism works: the average Venezuelan lost 19 pounds. Rampant obesity is a symptom of the failure of capitalism. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/venezuela-unprecedented-economic-collapse-by-ricardo-hausmann-2017-07‬

‪Socialism works: the average Venezuelan lost 19 pounds. Rampant obesity is a symptom of the failure of capitalism. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/venezuela-unprecedented-economic-collapse-by-ricardo-hausmann-2017-07‬___